Tom B'hend and Preston Kaufmann Collection

About this collection

Selection of items from the Tom B’hend and Preston Kaufmann collection. Tom B’hend and Preston Kaufmann were collectors of material related to motion picture theaters and theater organs. B’hend was a theater organ enthusiast and Kaufmann was an author and head of Showcase Publications. Accumulated by Tom B’hend from the 1940s onward, since 1972 the collection had been expanded and maintained by Preston Kaufmann, who had made arrangements for its transfer to the library prior to his death in 1998. Read more about the Tom B’hend and Preston Kaufmann collection.